Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Use this tag when you want to refer to one of the problems stated above.
Questions tagged [data-recovery]
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How to recover deleted files?
Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?
If it makes any difference, I want to recover a Keepass 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.
Decio Lira
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Can files/directories deleted with rm be restored?
Is it possible to restore files/directories which are deleted from terminal using rm and rm -r?. If a file is deleted from graphical interface, it could be restored from trash, but how do you restore a file if it is removed using the rm utility?.
user3215
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What's the difference between ddrescue, gddrescue, and dd_rescue?
The dd command is commonly used to make image backups of a drive or partition. However, it performs poorly if the source drive is unreliable or failing. I read that ddrescue/dd_rescue is a good tool to use to recover an image from a bad drive, since…
Mechanical snail
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How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?
I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions
(C:) Vista
(D:) Entertainment
(E:) Work
(F:) Sources
and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and…
Totally newbie
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Tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive
What is the best tool for recovering deleted data from a flash drive (pen drive)?
nixnotwin
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Accidentally did dd /dev/sda
I written an ISO image to my hard disk using sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sda. I meant /dev/sdc, and now running sudo fdisk -l returns only one partition on /dev/sda while there is supposed to be 6. Is it possible to recover my data?
I didn't shut…
Baaing Cow
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Accidentally deleted a folder
I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 and accidentally deleted a folder using Shift+Del.
Does anyone have any idea how to recover the folder?
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How to backup/clone Windows creating a recovery image using Ubuntu
I bought a new laptop with Windows installed on it. I'm going to wipe all partitions and install Ubuntu.
One day I'll probably sell that laptop, so it'll be nice to recover it to the manufacturer state. I want to backup recovery partition, save it…
tomrozb
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Recovering Files from a Corrupt CD/DVD
I have certain old CD/DVD's which are not in good condition. I want to recover from them anything that can be recovered. in windows you had software like Isobuster and Cd Recovery which will let me do this. Can anyone suggest a native linux app?
tinhed
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Enable Wi-Fi in Recovery Terminal
How do I enable WiFi from the Ubuntu 11.10 netroot recovery terminal?
After just 12 hours with Ubuntu, I managed to destroy my ATI fglrx drivers and now I can't repair them without Internet access.
Petrus Theron
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Mounting ddrescue image after recovery (in over my head)
I'm having problems mounting the recovery image. I've tried to mount the image multiple ways.
quark@DS9 ~ $ sudo mount -t ext4 /media/jump1/1recover/sdb1.img /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing…
BorgDomination
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I seem to have deleted all my files while removing the wine from the home directory
After trying to remove Wine from Ubuntu, all my files were suddenly gone. That is, I do not see any of my documents etc., but my hard drive says only 3 GB is still available (which is common for my small hard drive).
The problem occurred after…
AsMek
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How can I make my laptop "phone home" if it ever gets stolen?
If my laptop ever gets stolen, I want it to make an attempt to "phone home" so that I can track it down.
What can I set up to accomplish this?
ændrük
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Is there any recovery software available for ext4?
Well, I have accidentally deleted my Ubuntu drive. I just want to recover all the contents of /home.
Is there a way to do it? I referred to foremost, where I need to specify the extensions of files. And in my case, I don't know actual extensions.…
Amey Jah
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Is there a way to recover files from a storage device partially overwritten with dd?
I'm an idiot, I was writing an image to a USB drive using dd when instead of typing /dev/sdb I typed /dev/sdd and wrote the 135mb image to my 750gb External Hardrive full of files. Is there ANY possibility of recovering the files or did dd…
japzone
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